Pinecastle Records is currently shipping four new CD’s to radio stations and DJs that have release dates set for January and February of 2009. Those CD’s include offerings from the 2008 IBMA Banjo Player of the Year, Kristin Scott Benson, Nothin’ Fancy, Ernie Thacker & Route 23 and David Parmley & Continental Divide.

For those radio stations and DJ’s who are anxious to get new material into rotation, Pinecastle Records offers a digital download service to broadcasters. The digital files are offered in wma and mp3 file formats.

Mandolin player and in-your-face bluegrass singer Ron Spears has joined David Parmley’s Continental Divide.
Spears played mandolin for Greg Cahill’s Special Consensus and left the group about a year ago to join Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, a move that didn’t work out. Spears spent the summer driving tourist and band buses in Nashville before accepting [...]